Imagine eating a delicious strawberry. Most people think of their digestive system as one long tube. Mouth, stomach, and… well… in one end and out the other, right? Nope. Not quite. Let’s look at the plight of the strawberry. You pop the strawberry in your mouth. Chewing it releases enzymes, which help break it down. When you swallow, it goes down the esophagus and into the stomach. In the stomach, your digestive juices break it down even more.

The strawberry particles are moved along to the small intestine, which isn’t really so small. Did you know the small intestine is about 22 feet long? It’s filled with tiny little finger-like “microvilli”. Nutrients from the strawberry pass through the microvilli into your bloodstream.

Whatever is left of the strawberry that wasn’t absorbed, gets moved along into the colon, or large intestine. The colon is about 6 feet long and 2″ in diameter. Ideally, the colon secretes a mucous to help move things along. That “should” be the end of the strawberry. In one end and out the other.

But, the mucous just isn’t powerful enough to move the enzymeless sludge of that Super Taco, Fried Onion Rings and the chocolate shake. The body valiantly keeps on trying, so more and more mucous is produced to try help things move along.

Eventually the mucous becomes mixed with indigestible elements, like fatty acids from the Sour Cream ‘n Onion potato chips. Day after day, week after week, month after month, the layers of sludge in the colon get thicker and harder.

The sludge that’s building up is undigested food. Rotting proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. Want to see what that looks like? Leave some meat, french fries and bread out on the counter for a week. Disgusting? Sure. Good thing it’s inside your colon, where you can’t see it, right?

In his fascinating book, Cleanse and Purify, Dr. Richard Anderson cites an encounter with one medical doctor who did not want to be identified. This doctor, after hearing Anderson’s lecture about mucoid plaque and expanded toxic colons, told the audience:

“I have spent twelve years working in the field of post-mortem diagnosis. I have seen many thousands of dissected cadavers. What Rich is telling you is the absolute truth. Everybody has it in there.

We have a way of attaching a hose to the upper intestines and with the aid of powerful chemicals, we literally blow the stuff right out of the intestines.

I have seen the heavy ‘beer belly’ and so called fat people lose all that bulk in five minutes. It wasn’t fat. It was the mucoid layer that Rich was talking about, and in that filthy substance we see all sorts of worms, bacteria, fungi, and many unidentifiable things.

It is almost unbelievable that people can live with that filth in them. All these people were dead of course, and it wasn’t hard to see why.”

Aren’t you glad you’re not a strawberry?

P.S. We highly recommend our colon cleanse to help clean out the sludge so your body can operate more efficiently!